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the treasury, to complete the whole series. But the law of 1843 
opened wide the door of the treasury, and ordered the Treasurer to 
pay the " costs and expenses already incurred, or hereafter to be in- 
curred in the competition of the said work, to the persons entitled to 
the same and since that period the drafts upon the treasury have been 
very large. The following table shows the aggregate amount paid 
to March 1, 1845, and the different heads under which the same was 
paid. 
For salaries of geologists, assistants and draftsmen, $120,056 20 
" freight of minerals, &c., 1,348 22 
" printing, binding and paper, 65 ,223 21 
" engraving, lithographing and wood cuts, 29,206 72 
" printing engravings, &c., 27,145 38 
" coloring engravings, 47,252 00 
" paper for engravings, 16 , 184 69 
" fuel, furniture, chemicals, postage, labor, &c.,.. 2,729 72 
" mounting 3,000 geological maps of the State, .. 2,400 00 
" preparing specimens of birds, 591 00 
printing geological reports from 1836 to 1841,. 19,530 00 
$331,667 14 
A considerable portion of the expense of the volumes not yet 
completed is included in the above sums, but from the best estimates 
the committee have been able to obtain in respect to the futurej ex- 
pense that will be incurred in completing the whole series of fifteen 
volumes, they estimate the amount at $56,688. 
This will make the aggregate expense of the whole work amount 
to the sum of $388,335. 
The edition consisting of three thousand copies of each volume, 
and the number of volumes being fifteen, the whole number of books 
will be forty-five thousand ; and the expense to the State for each of 
said volumes, will vary but a trifle from $8.50. But it appears from 
the report of the Secretary of State, that of the first six volumes, 
there were a number of copies of each volume, in all amounting to 
two hundred and twenty copies, that were not delivered at the State 
Hall by the printer. And from the same report it further appears 
